An autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Finance

 

Replacing FIPB with Standard Operating Procedure not enough

13/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Radhika Pandey and Sumant Prashant]

 

Foreign investment into India has always been heavily regulated, requiring approvals from various government ministries. Post-liberalisation, a need was felt to create a single window for foreign investors applying for such approvals. As a result, the Foreign …


Concerns about how the Medical Council of India thinks about medical malpractice

04/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Shubho Roy] 

 
India has approximately 5.2 million medical negligence cases annually. A study for Mumbai showed that medico-legal cases, in courts, against doctors rose from 910 in the period from 1998 and 2006, to 150-200 cases every year. The responsibility to regulate the …

MGNREGA: Has Direct Fiscal Transfer provided more jobs to women?

03/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Yadawendra Singh]

 

Globally, a direct employment transfer - a job guarantee programme - is an “employer of last resort” fiscal policy, which envisions the government bearing a guarantee to provide paid work opportunities of predictable duration at a predetermined wage for public …


Think-Act local, and Share global

14/06/2017

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- A simple approach to finding synergy between Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement.

 
Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement are treated as substitutable processes 
 
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA, henceforth) are, …

The long wait for introduction of GST is over

09/06/2017

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The long wait for a harmonised indirect tax system in India will soon be over with the introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) system from July 1, 2017. After the passage of four GST Bills (Central GST, Integrated GST, Union Territory GST and GST Compensation to States), …